| mikeygees | 18 Nov 2013 6:10 p.m. PST |
Can someone tell me if this is a leather skull-cap, or a small helmet…..
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| PraetorianHistorian | 18 Nov 2013 6:17 p.m. PST |
Looks like a helmet to me. |
nnascati  | 18 Nov 2013 6:20 p.m. PST |
I'd say a skull cap or early arming cap. Maybe look for pained samples of the figures. |
| SonofThor | 18 Nov 2013 6:31 p.m. PST |
He needs a propeller on the top. :) |
| StarfuryXL5 | 18 Nov 2013 6:53 p.m. PST |
Or curly sideburns.  |
IGWARG1  | 18 Nov 2013 6:58 p.m. PST |
It could be be either. However, I would vote for metal scull helmet, since he well armored otherwise. |
 Parzival | 18 Nov 2013 8:05 p.m. PST |
Yeah, helmet. Though how that is supposed to stay on his head beats me… |
| rvandusen | 18 Nov 2013 8:43 p.m. PST |
I'm the lone dissenting voice and will go with a leather or felt cap. In all my research on Vikings I've never come across a hemispherical iron bowl for a helmet. Typical Viking helmets were either in 'spangenhelm'-style like a crash-helmet, sometimes with cheek-pieces and nasal, with or without eye-guards, (these would have been in the earlier Vendel tradition), or the conical nasal helmets that were currently being worn throughout much of Europe. This type was either made up from segments in the earlier fashion or in a single piece. Helmets were likely very expensive and uncommon so a man wearing mail without a helmet or with only a leather or felt cap would not be impossible. |
| Roderick Robertson | 19 Nov 2013 12:03 a.m. PST |
I agree with rvandusen – a metal helmet would be larger and cover more of the head, and have a basal at the least. Put me down for "leather or felt". |
| mikeygees | 19 Nov 2013 5:02 a.m. PST |
"leather or felt". Yeah I'm thinking that as well….. Thanks everyone. |
| Ron W DuBray | 19 Nov 2013 7:11 a.m. PST |
When I opened this post, I was expecting to have to brake out the books and ID a real helm for you. This was such a let down :(.. As a armor maker and Norse History nut with a goodly pile of armor and armoring books: I would say that no helms were ever found that would look like the head wear on these minis. They look more like armor padding or knit caps. The Norse made a lot of knit caps. As for the mini itself. I think it was a sculptor that did not want to or could not do the work to add a proper helm to a head he already had. |
| Zargon | 19 Nov 2013 11:03 a.m. PST |
Felt cap, they were common head attire around that time and earlier, the late Romans had a flat topped looking one and even one that looked like a cap with front peak. Check Griping Beasts civilian line I think one two of them are wearing this little cap as well. Felted wool was a known insulator and good for keeping feet hands and head warm never mind the body, also pretty good in absorbing a bash to the noggin if not too brutal. BTW nice figures who makes them? Cheers |
| mikeygees | 19 Nov 2013 11:05 a.m. PST |
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| Altius | 19 Nov 2013 1:39 p.m. PST |
maybe they're Jewish vikings. |
